Amber Heard's sister testifies she got caught in physical fight between actress, Johnny Depp
Whitney Heard Henriquez is the main observer to affirm at the five-week common preliminary to say she actually saw Depp hitting Heard. Depp has affirmed he never struck Heard.
Henriquez affirmed the battle happened in March 2015 — a month after Depp and Heard's wedding — when Heard found proof that Depp had an extramarital illicit relationship. Henriquez related that an intoxicated Depp faulted Heard for constraining him into the extramarital experience.
At a certain point, she said, she was gotten among Depp and Heard as he energized a flight of stairs to go up against Heard. Henriquez said she was struck toward the back, and Heard became angered and "landed one" on Depp, with Henriquez stuck between the two.
One of Depp's protectors mediated and separated the battle yet "at that point Johnny had previously snatched Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her over and again in the face with the other," Henriquez said.
It was the main time, Henriquez said, that she actually saw an actual attack. In any case, she said she saw the outcome of different battles, remembering wounds for Heard.
She said she had the epithet "marriage mentor" for her incessant endeavors to intervene contentions among Heard and Depp.
"Obviously not quite well," she said of her intervention endeavors.
However, she recognized on questioning that she favored Depp now and again in their debates, and said she attempted to hold the couple together even after she watched her sister be truly attacked.
"If my sister said that she actually needed to accompany Johnny and on the off chance that I could assist with that in any capacity I planned to help her. I would have been there for her," she said.
Henriquez conceded that once, she even kidded in an instant message that Depp ought to hit Heard, yet she said she didn't actually comprehend what her sister was going through at that point.
Henriquez likewise recounted Depp's way of behaving at Heard's 30th birthday celebration party in April 2016, one of the last battles between the couple. She said individuals alternated sharing most loved recollections of Heard. Depp, who showed up later than expected and inebriated to the party, chose to recount when he initially met Heard as she tried out for a film and "she sat on the love seat and her ideal (back) left the ideal engraving on the lounge chair."
"We were all sort of humiliated," Henriquez said.
Depp is suing Heard for defamation in Virginia's Fairfax County Circuit Court more than a 2018 opinion piece she wrote in The Washington Post portraying herself as "an individual of note addressing homegrown maltreatment." His legal advisors say he was slandered by the article despite the fact that it never referenced his name.
